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N e w B o o k s 2 0 1 1 Chinua Achebe John Ashbery Sujata Bhatt Eavan Boland Joseph Brodsky Paul Celan Inger Christensen Donald Davie Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) Over forty years of great poetry Iain Crichton Smith Elaine Feinstein Carcanet Celebrates 40 Years...from Carcanet... Louise Glück Jorie Graham W.S. Graham Ivor Gurney Marilyn Hacker John Heath-Stubbs Elizabeth Jennings Brigit Pegeen Kelly Mimi Khalvati Thomas Kinsella R. F. Langley Hugh MacDiarmid L e t t e r f r o m t h e E d i t o r

As this catalogue goes to press, I’m editing New Poetries V, an introductory anthology of by writers several of whom will publish Carcanet first collections in coming years. They come from the round earth’s imagined corners – from Singapore and Stirling, Cape Town and Cambridge, Dublin and Washington – and from England. They share a vocation for experimenting with form, tone and theme. From India, Europe and America a Collected Poems by Sujata Bhatt, and from South Africa and a new collection by Carola Luther, indicate the geographical scope of the Carcanet list. For eight years readers have waited to accompany Eavan Boland on her critical Journey with Two Maps: in April, at last we set out. We also encounter an anthology of British that changes our take on the tradition. Translation, classic and contemporary, remains at the heart of our reading. John Ashbery’s embodiment of Rimbaud’s Illuminations is his most ambitious translation project since his versions of Pierre Martory. Fawzi Karim from Iraq, Toon Tellegen from the Netherlands, the Gawain Poet from Middle English and Natalia Gorbanevskaya from Russia explore historical, allegorical and legendary landscapes and bring back trophies… And from America, a first European edition of the most recent US , Kay Ryan. We continue our mission of rescuing great writers of the past – among them Ford Madox Ford, Hope Mirrlees and Iain Crichton Smith. And Mervyn Peake rewards us in his centenary year with Complete Nonsense. Frederic Raphael recalls the last century as it really was, and in I Found It at the Movies Philip French adds to the wealth of rediscovery. In 2010 , twenty of whose books we published, died. This 2011 list is dedicated to his memory: a chorus of writers in their variety and eloquence honour the values he exemplified. As always, we welcome your comments and suggestions.

Michael Schmidt, Editorial & Managing Director

Contents

January August 3 Iain Crichton Smith, New Collected Poems 27 Sasha Dugdale, Red House 4 Peter McCarey, Collected Contraptions 28 Peter Scupham, Borrowed Landscapes 5 Ford Madox Ford, Parade's End vol. II: No More Parades 29 Kay Ryan, Odd Blocks: Selected and New Poems 30 Natalia Gorbanevskaya, Selected Poems, February translated by Daniel Weissbort 6 Fawzi Karim, Plague Lands and other poems, translated by Anthony Howell September 7 Toon Tellegen, Raptors, translated by Judith Wilkinson 31 Hope Mirrlees, Collected Poems 8 Peter McDonald, Torchlight 32 Linda Chase, Not Many Love Poems 33 On the Thirteenth Stroke of Midnight: Surrealist Poetry in Britain, March edited by Michel Remy 9 Chris McCully, Selected Poems 10 Frederic Raphael, Ifs and Buts: Personal Terms V 34 October - December titles 11 Philip French, I Found It at the Movies: Reflections of a Cinephile Sujata Bhatt, Collected Poems New Poetries V, edited by Michael Schmidt April Will Eaves, Sound Houses 12 Ford Madox Ford, Parade's End vol. III: A Man Could Stand Up - Mimi Khalvati, New and Selected Poems 13 David Kinloch, Finger of a Frenchman Moya Cannon, Hands 14 Eavan Boland, A Journey with Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet Olivia McCannon, Exactly My Own Length 15 Pearl, translated by Jane Draycott 35 Edwin Morgan celebration May 36-37 Sheep Meadow Press titles 16 Ian Pindar, Emporium 38-39 Selected Backlist 17 Eric Ormsby, The Baboons of Hada 40 PN Review 18 Kelly Grovier, The Sleepwalker at Sea 19 Arthur Rimbaud, Illuminations, translated by John Ashbery Information 42 Order forms June 43 Trade Information 44 Online with Carcanet 20 Tim Liardet, The Storm House 21 Gregory Woods, An Ordinary Dog 22 John F. Deane, Eye of the Hare July 23 Ford Madox Ford, Parade's End vol. IV: 24 Peter Riley, The Glacial Stairway 25 Carola Luther, Arguing with Malarchy 26 Mervyn Peake, Complete Nonsense Iain New Collected Poems Crichton Smith Edited with an introduction by Matthew McGuire Iain Crichton Smith’s Collected Poems was awarded the Saltire Prize when It is the island that goes away, not we who leave it. it was published in 1992. This completely revised and enlarged edition Like an unbearable thought it sinks beyond includes seventy additional poems, mostly from the four books the poet assiduous reasoning light and wringing hands, published in the 1990s: Ends and Beginnings (1994), The Human Face (1996), The Leaf and The Marble (1998) and A Country for Old Men and or, as a flower roots deep into the ground, My Canadian Uncle (2000), together with extracts from his 1971 it works its darkness into the gay winds translation of ’s epic Dàin do Eimhir agus Dàin Eile (Poems that blow about us in a later spirit. to Eimhir, 1943), a momentous event in modern Gaelic poetry. from ‘The Departing Island’ The new introduction by Matthew McGuire illuminates the range of Crichton Smith’s achievement as a poet of Scotland and Europe, rooted in local tradition and, in Edwin Morgan’s words, ‘open to the whole intellectual world’.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND EDITOR JANUARY 2011 IAIN CRICHTON SMITH (1928-1998) grew up in the small crafting town of Bayble, on the . Educated at Aberdeen University, after national service he taught for twenty-two years at Oban. In 1977 he retired to write full time. ISBN 978 185754 9607 He received many awards, including the OBE in 1980. Carcanet published his Selected Poems (1985), Ends and Beginnings (1995), The Human Face (1997), The Leaf and the Marble (1998) and Selected Stories (1990). 580 pp PAPER £18.95 MATTHEW MCGUIRE is a lecturer in at the Univeristy of . He is the author of Contemporary World Scottish Literature (2008) and the co-editor of The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Poetry (2009).

POETRY 3 P e t e r Collected Contraptions M c C a r e y Peter McCarey’s first full collection, comprising work from his five pamphlets, is an exhilarating journey on the U-bahns and runways of language: ‘In a matter of hours / they can take you anywhere’. Collected Contraptions opens with water, rain and shadows; the inscription of ‘the singer’s mark’ from the lost language of the Indus Valley civilisation shines from a Shakespeare sonnet; we are caught in a sci-fi spaghetti Western; a shady Czech smuggles a golem and a robot into pre- massacre Rwanda. Language shape-shifts, reinvents itself, before going on another road trip where stories are recited backwards and fast forward. Last is

‘Tantris’, an epic of intricate narrative whose message couldn’t be more simple: Mirror’ Driving Devil in the ‘The from ‘Don’t go: don’t let the morning / Turn your head with her shivering, thin grace.’

The river civilisations began to write 5,000 years ago civilisations began to write 5,000 The river to list the contents of their warehouses. every was written later, Poetry the tongues of power line an item. Now in ASCII inventories. fixed are themselves They cannot move. like roads. there Stuck trucks the forklift in the digital warehouses Will assemble songs?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR JANUARY 2011 PETER McCAREY was born Paisley and brought up in Glasgow. After studying, writing and freelancing ISBN 978 184777 0738 in various parts of Europe, he moved to Geneva in 1988, where he is now the Head of Language Services at the World Health Organization and an occasional performer with experimental arts 184 pp PAPER £14.95 collective Roaratorio. He has written a dozen books and has been published in anthologies in various countries. He has been working on the website of the Syllabary, a mammoth poem, since the mid-1990s. World

POETRY 4 F o r d Parade's End volume II M a d o x No More Parades F o r d Edited by Joseph Wiesfarth NO MORE PARADES INCLUDES For the first time, the four novels that make up Ford Madox Ford’s • the first reliable text, based on the World War I masterpiece Parade’s End are published in fully annotated manuscript and first editions editions, with authoritative corrected texts. Each novel is edited by a • a major critical introduction by Joseph Wiesenfarth, author of Ford leading Ford expert. Madox Ford and the Regiment of Women ‘No more Hope, no more Glory, no more parades for you and me any • an account of the novel’s more. Nor for the country . . . Nor for the world, I dare say composition and reception . . .’, says Christopher Tietjens to a war-damaged fellow officer, under • annotations explaining historical fire on the Western Front. No More Parades continues Parade’s End from references, military terms, literary Tietjens’ return to the Front in 1917. Ford’s searing account of the war is and topical allusions unforgettable: supplies are inadequate, orders confused; men die among • a full textual apparatus including the ‘endless muddles; endless follies’. Death replaces love; Tietjens’ transcriptions of deletions and betrayal by his wife Sylvia mirrors the violence and dishonour of the war. revisions • a bibliography of further reading

ABOUT THE EDITOR JANUARY 2011 JOSEPH WIESENFARTH is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has lectured and published extensively on Ford Madox Ford and the . ISBN 978 184777 0134 ALSO AVAILABLE FROM CARCANET 432 pp PAPER £18.95 Parade's End volume I: Some Do Not . . . , edited by Max Saunders Parade's End volume III: A Man Could Stand Up - , edited by Sara Haslam World Parade's End volume IV: Last Post, edited by Paul Skinner

FICTION 5 POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDED TRANSLATION F a w z i Plague Lands and other poems K a r i m Versions by Anthony Howell after translations by Abbas Kadhim Born in Baghdad in 1945, now living in London, Fawzi Karim is one of the most compelling voices of the exiled generation of Iraqi writers. In the first collection of his poetry to appear in English, his long sequence ‘Plague Lands’ I shall come back is an elegy for the life of a lost city, a chronicle of a journey into exile, haunted To say, ‘I’m drunk on the shade Of the mulberries that overhang our glasses.’ by the deep history of an ancient civilisation. Karim’s defiant humanity, I shall come back rejecting dogma and polemic, makes him a necessary poet for fractured times. To sing of those who drank with me. And it is enough Working closely with the author, the poet Anthony Howell has created versions To mourn my father’s house; of ‘Plague Lands’ and a selection of Karim’s shorter poems. Notes on the To mourn for us – who abandoned it poems, Elena Lappin’s introduction and an afterword by Marius Kociejowski from ‘The Last Song’ exploring Karim’s life, illuminate the poetry.

Decidedly, Fawzi Karim is a poet for our times, with his strong yet beautiful voice, his indignation, his protests – and the haunting memories of certain lines that seem intended for all of us, but that few of us can hear in the endless tumult of what is still called ‘life’. James Kirkup

ABOUT THE AUTHOR FEBRUARY 2011 FAWZI KARIM is an Iraqi poet, critic, painter and authority on classical music. Born in Baghdad in 1945 and educated at Baghdad University, he lived in Lebanon from 1969-1972 and has lived ISBN 978 184777 0639 in London since 1978. He has published more than fourteen books of poetry in Arabic, including a two volume Collected Poems (2000) and most recently, Night of Abel Alaa (2008). He is also the 160 pp PAPER £12.95 author of eight books of prose, including Diary of The End of a Nightmare (2005). This is the first of World Karim's works to appear in English.

POETRY IN TRANSLATION 6 T o o n Raptors Tellegen Translated with an introduction by Judith Wilkinson With the economy of proverbs and the psychological insight of a novel, Toon Raptors Tellegen’s acclaimed sequence Raptors depicts the dynamics of a family held hostage by the mood-swings and histrionics of a father, a figure both comic from

and terrifying, grotesque and pathetic. Tellegen’s mercurial imagination evokes the dark archetypes of European folklore and reanimates them with a sophisticated sense of the endless fluidity of relationships, the instability of interpretation. An improvisation on a theme, circling back to ‘my father’ at the start of each poem, Raptors builds to a story without narrative, its extravagant imaginative leaps into absurdity held within a framework of that she had to live up to, tender observation. Toon Tellegen’s translator Judith Wilkinson has worked closely with the poet to create English poems that capture the startling clarity and inventiveness of the original Dutch. Raptors has the rewarding My father to love my mother, wanted nothing morewanted profoundly than that her innocence and unpredictabilityand he gave and fine promises not enough but it was intensity of a modern classic.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR FEBRUARY 2011 TOON TELLEGEN was born in 1941 on one of the islands in the south-west of the Netherlands. He is one of the best-known Dutch writers; in 2007 he received two major ISBN 978 184777 0837 prizes for his entire oeuvre. First and foremost a poet - he has published more than twenty collections to date - he is also a novelist and a prolific and popular children’s author. 112 pp PAPER £12.95 Tellegen lives in Amsterdam and worked as a GP until his recent retirement. World JUDITH WILKINSON is a British poet and prize-winning translator living in the Netherlands.

POETRY IN TRANSLATION 7 P e t e r Torchlight McDonald Torchlight explores the haunting persistence of memories, and the acts They would bury ashes or bodies in the evening, of remembrance which preserve and shape them. In his fifth collection, then say whatever was right to say, looking the Northern Irish poet Peter McDonald ranges across a wide poetic out into a bruised and sun-inflamed west landscape, from Belfast in the troubled 1970s to contemporary to think of the dead, and take leave of them. England, from personal recollection to a fragment of Sappho’s memory There would be noise from here and there – people, of her youth, eloquent across millennia; from ancient myth to rock animals, carts, invisible cicadas – music. At the centre of Torchlight is a major new translation of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, a Greek text which, in McDonald’s hands, and the one road to town would darken. When resonates with the concerns and discoveries of the book’s shorter everyone had gone back, and night came, poems, and brings the mystery cult of Eleusis into an unnerving the spirit would loiter unseen by its grave, conjunction with the losses, recoveries and revelations elsewhere in the alone and afraid to go far, anxious collection. McDonald’s powerful lyric poetry is both complex and for dawn, and departure then from the earth. memorable, light and vigorous. His is an original and distinctive voice in Irish poetry. ‘The Wait’

ABOUT THE AUTHOR FEBRUARY 2011 PETER McDONALD was born in Belfast in 1962 and educated in Belfast and at University, where he won the Newdigate Prize for Poetry. He has published two previous poetry collections ISBN 978 184777 0912 with Carcanet, Pastorals (2004) and The House of Clay (2007). A prominent critic of modern and contemporary poetry, he is the author of Serious Poetry: Form and Authority from Yeats to Hill (2002). 80 pp PAPER £9.95 He is also the editor of MacNeice's Collected Poems (2007). McDonald is Christopher Tower Student World and Tutor in Poetry at Christ Church, Oxford, where he runs the organisation Tower Poetry.

POETRY 8 c h r i s Selected Poems McCully Let us have no religions, Torquatus, except those which belong To roads and libraries, to a code of manners whose primary purpose Is the maintenance of parks and fountains. McCully is a keen fly-fisher, a from ‘Roads’ translator of Old and an expert prosodist; and these Chris McCully’s Selected Poems includes work from 1993 to 2009, a skills have miraculously combined representative selection which reveals his engagement with the precise crafts of so that almost every poem alights language and poetic form. The book opens with the prose-poem ‘Dust’ from on the surface of the reader’s his 2009 collection Polder, a meditation on extinction: ‘dust again the voices mind with absolute integrity, of the pages and the voices of the lovers’. Other voices follow, conversations in judgement, and a profound allure. which civility, memories of friendship, art and literature respond to the ADAM THORPE, desolation of dust, asserting what imagination can create from it. OBSERVER In translations from Old English, sonnets, villanelles and ballads, McCully’s supple, sparing verse celebrates the fragile place in which we live, ‘between space and space – / and both are dark’.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR MARCH 2011 CHRIS McCULLY was born in Bradford and now lives in the Netherlands. For many years ISBN 978 184777 0189 he was a full-time academic in the UK. He has published three collections of poetry with Carcanet (Time Signatures, 1993; Not Only I, 1996; The Country of Perhaps, 2003), as well as 128 pp PAPER £9.95 Fly-fishing: A Book of Words (1992). He edited the essay collection The Poet's Voice and Craft (1994) and in 2008 Carcanet published his book of translations, Old English Poems and Riddles. World

POETRY 9 F r e d e r ic Ifs and Buts Raphael Personal Terms V Dubbing was made a mild pleasure by the vanity of authority. A pianist who had to be a member of the Musicians’ Union played the theme from Beethoven’s Ninth with Praise for Personal Terms two fingers in order to provide the final false note which witty ignorance demanded. ‘E flat all right?’ ‘Fine,’ I said, as if I had something more chic in mind, but had Frederic Raphael's notebooks agreed to compromise. reveal the 'chip of ice' that, June 1978: Frederic Raphael is in a studio for the dubbing of his television play according to , Something’s Wrong, and a routine moment is captured by his wry alertness to lurks in the heart of a writer... vanities and foibles. Ifs and Buts continues the sharply stylish extracts from the Spiky, acute and immodest, journal of time spent, in the words of , with ‘one eye on life’s Raphael's notebooks offer greasy pole and the other on the eternal verities’. Both, for Raphael, are subjects stimulating entertainment. For for curiosity, scepticism and entertainment. Ifs and Buts includes encounters with an insight into the writer's David Garnett and Rebecca West, with their still-vivid memories of H.G. Wells mind, you'll find nothing better. and Lytton Strachey, D.H. Lawrence and Bloomsbury; an account of working CHRISTOPHER HIRST, with Diana Dors, and of not working with Diane Keaton. Alongside are darker INDEPENDENT reflections on public and private life, on what it is to be a Jew, on terrorism and the cruelties within relationships.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR MARCH 2011 FREDERIC RAPHAEL was born in Chicago in 1931 and educated at Charterhouse and St John’s College, Cambridge. His novels include Glittering Prizes (1976), Coast to Coast (1998) and Fame and ISBN 978 184777 1223 Fortune (2007); he has also written short stories and biographies of Somerset Maugham and Byron. He is a leading screenwriter whose work includes the Academy Award-winning Darling (1965), Far 280 pp PAPER £19.95 from the Madding Crowd (1967), and the screenplay for Stanley Kubrick’s last film, Eyes Wide Shut. World The previous four volumes of his memoirs, Personal Terms, are published by Carcanet.

LIVES AND LETTERS 10 P h i l ip I Found It at the Movies French Reflections of a Cinephile

For nearly half a century Philip French’s writing on cinema has been essential There is a tiny number of British Praise for Personal Terms reading for filmgoers, cinephiles and anyone who enjoys witty, intelligent film critics who are really respon- sible and serious and understand engagement with the big screen. I Found It at the Movies collects some of the true cinema and he is the doyen. best of Philip French’s film writing from 1964 to 2009. Its subjects are as Mike Leigh various, entertaining and challenging as cinema itself: Kurosawa and the Philip believes that cinema is the Addams family; Satyajit Ray and Doris Day; from Hollywood and the art form for the world’s people... If Holocaust to British cinema and postage stamps. I Found It at the Movies is an Philip goes out and chances his arm illuminating companion to the world of the cinema. on backing somebody, it means more I Found It at the Movies is the first of three collections of Philip French’s to the industry than any other writer. writings on film and culture. Sir Richard attenborough Good critics are fundamental in It’s very rare that you find someone who manages to find a way of writing the creation of any good piece of that expresses the essence of the emotional experience of watching a film art and Philip is an exemplar of the very best of an important tradition. and Philip manages to do that beautifully and succinctly. Neil Jordan D av i d P uttnam

ABOUT THE AUTHOR MARCH 2011 PHILIP FRENCH has been the Observer's film critic since 1978. A senior producer for BBC radio from 1959 to 1990, French has written regularly for the Financial Times, the London Magazine, The ISBN 978 184777 1292 Times, the New Statesman, the Spectator and Sight & Sound. His books include The Movie Moguls (1969), The Faber Book of Movie Verse (1993), Cult Movies (1999) and, for Carcanet, Westerns: Aspects 304 pp PAPER £19.95 of a Movie Genre (1972; updated 2005). French was a member of the jury at the 1986 Cannes Film World Festival and a Booker Prize judge in 1988.

FILM CRITICISM 11 F o r d Parade's End volume III M a d o x A Man Could Stand Up - F o r d Edited by sara haslam For the first time, the four novels that make up Ford Madox Ford’s World NO MORE PARADES INCLUDES War I masterpiece Parade’s End are published in fully annotated editions, • the first reliable text, based on the with authoritative corrected texts. Each novel is edited by a leading Ford manuscript and first editions expert. • a major critical introduction by Sara Haslam, author of Fragmenting A Man Could Stand Up –, the third volume of Parade’s End, brings Ford’s : Ford Madox Ford, the characters to the ‘crack across the table of History’, across which lie their Novel and the Great War uncertain post-war futures. Divided into three parts, the novel is a • an account of the novel’s kaleidoscopic vision of a society at climactic moment. The Armistice Day composition and reception fireworks heard by Valentine Wannop in London with which the novel opens • annotations explaining historical are echoed in the nightmare bombardment of the second part, as we are references, military terms, literary taken back to the war and Christopher Tietjens, staggering through the mud and topical allusions of No Man’s Land with a wounded soldier in his arms. The final section • a full textual apparatus including returns to Armistice Day and joins the two characters in a frenetic , transcriptions of deletions and revisions while Tietjens’ wartime comrades smash glasses drunkenly around them. • a bibliography of further reading

ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND EDITOR APRIL 2011 FORD MADOX FORD was a great novelist, poet, editor, essayist, critic and advocate. Born in in 1873, Ford's maternal grandfather was the Pre-Raphaelite painter . His experience in the First World War furnished ISBN 978 184777 0141 him with material for his many novels. He died in France in 1939. 400 pp PAPER £18.95 SARA HASLAM is Chair of the Ford Madox Ford Society and author of Fragmenting Modernism: Ford Madox Ford, the Novel and the Great War (Manchester University Press, 2002). She edited Ford’s England and the English (2003) for Carcanet. World

FICTION 12 D a v i d Finger of a Frenchman Kinloch Finger of a Frenchman explores looking, and writing about looking: at surfaces and beyond them, at what is depicted and what is hidden in shadow. Kinloch’s poems are portraits of artists and reflections on art through five centuries of the artistic bond between Scotland and France. John Acheson, Master of the Scottish Mint, takes Mary, Queen of Scots’ portrait for the Scottish coinage; Esther Inglis paints the first self-portrait by a Scottish artist; Jean-Jacques Rousseau ticks off his portrait painter, Allan Ramsay, and Eugene Delacroix offers David Wilkie a brace of partridge for tea in Kensington. The Glasgow Boys, the Scottish Colourists and Charles Rennie Mackintosh bring the gallery into the twentieth century, where Kinloch considers the hybrid art of figures such as Ian Hamilton Finlay, Alison Watt

and Douglas Gordon in lyrical prose-poems. Are they brothers? In the book’s second part, a mini-epic of a seventeenth-century priest’s Grand Tour offers a reflection on the nature of Collection itself, whether of paintings from ‘To a Gentleman of Bedchamber’ from ‘To the King’s

or poems, the composing of fragments into a whole. Beneath an arch a man in black Friends? offers stalk down, to one in red. an apple, smiles at us. doublet Black smiles at him. Red doublet will see behind their backs Look hard and you a bird with outstretched A swan? wings. An eagle?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR APRIL 2011 DAVID KINLOCH was born in Glasgow in 1959. A graduate of the Universities of Glasgow and Oxford, he is currently Reader in English at the University of Strathclyde. His previous ISBN 978 184777 0745 poetry collections include Un Tour d'Ecosse (Carcanet, 2001) and In My Father's House (Carcanet, 2005). A recipient of the Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award, Kinloch 80 pp PAPER £9.95 has also published studies of the French writers Joseph Joubert and Stéphane Mallarmé. World

POETRY 13 E av a n A Journey with Two Maps Boland Becoming a Woman Poet A Journey with Two Maps begins with an anecdote: one afternoon, Eavan This is a book of Boland saw one of her mother’s paintings for sale in a gallery, signed by her being and becoming. famous teacher. It is the starting point for an exploration of concepts of art and womanhood, of what it means to be a woman poet, finding her own voice It is about being a within a tradition. poet. It is also about Boland’s discussion is both critical and deeply personal, an account of her the long process of development as a poet that traces her experiences as a woman, wife and mother becoming one. in the light of influences such as Adrienne Rich, Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn EAVAN BOLAND Brooks and Sylvia Plath. Boland considers the ways in which influences themselves may be changed as a tradition is remade. In the final part of the book, ‘Letter to a Young Woman Poet’, she addresses an unseen poet of the future who will redraw the maps once more, remaking the past and the present.

Boland is one of the finest and boldest poets of the last half-century.

Elaine Feinstein, Poetry Review

ABOUT THE AUTHOR APRIL 2011 EAVAN BOLAND was born in Dublin in 1944. Carcanet have published her work for over two decades. A pioneering figure in Irish poetry, her books include The Journey and other poems (1987), ISBN 978 185754 5418 Night Feed (1994), The Lost Land (1998), Code (2001) and, most recently, Domestic Violence (2007). 280 pp PAPER £18.95 Carcanet published her memoir Object Lessons in 2006. Her poems and essays have appeared in magazines such as The New Yorker, Kenyon Review and American Poetry Review. She divides her time World excl. US & Canada between Dublin and California, where she teaches at Stanford University.

LIVES AND LETTERS 14 OxfordPoets Jane Pearl by the Gawain Poet Draycott Translated by Jane Draycott with an introduction by Bernard O’Donoghue In a dream landscape radiant with jewels, a father sees his lost daughter on the far bank of a river: ‘my pearl, my girl’. One of the great treasures of the , the fourteenth-century poem Pearl is a work of poetic brilliance. Its account of loss and consolation retains its force across six centuries. So I came to this very same spot Jane Draycott in her new translation remakes the imaginative intensity of the original. This is, Bernard O’Donoghue says in his introduction, ‘an event of great in the green of an August garden, height significance and excitement’, an encounter between medieval tradition and an and heart of summer, at Lammas time acclaimed modern poet. The language is marvellously modulated yet stirringly wild. Draycott has carried over when corn is cut with curving scythes... into our tamer, tired world a strong, strange sense of how original, gorgeous and natural this old poem can be. DAVID MORLEY, POETRY REVIEW When Jane Draycott read, for the first time, sections of her exquisitely modulated translation of the ‘Pearl’ poem, its echoing character seemed to transport me from one cultural space to another... I came as close to hearing the ‘Pearl’ poet’s voice as I am ever likely to be. STELLA HALKYARD, PN REVIEW

ABOUT THE AUTHOR APRIL 2011 JANE DRAYCOTT was born in London in 1954. Her first collectionPrince Rupert's Drop (Carcanet ISBN 978 190618 8016 / OxfordPoets), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 1999. In 2002 she was the winner of the Keats-Shelley Prize for Poetry and in 2004, the year of her second collection, 80 pp PAPER £9.95 The Night Tree, she was nominated as one of the Poetry Book Society's 'Next Generation' poets. Her third Carcanet collection Over was shortlisted for the 2009 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. World

POETRY 15 I a n Emporium It was about time for somebody to be Pindar channelling Eliot, maybe Stevens, Laforgue, and the Metaphysicals to such Yesterday the heat The light receded the shadows tapered into long rays . . . clashing effect: ‘bright as a seedsman’s packet’, with unexpected timbres and ‘Hey you, do you know where we are?’ sonorities sabotaged by glockenspiel How comforting a light in the darkness accents. Pindar is just right for the job. Any light JOHN ASHBERY from ‘Archaeologies’ In this sparkling debut collec- Emporium, Ian Pindar’s first collection, is stocked with curiosities, jokes tion Ian Pindar brilliantly fulfils and horrors. Step through the door and discover Big Bumperton on his Verlaine’s injunction to the poet to bicycle, Mrs Beltinska in her bath, Monsieur P. on holiday, a transfixed girl take eloquence and wring its neck. in blue jeans, a wasp, two lascivious figs and a god who wanders shopping arcades ‘enhaloed in black flames of longing and dread’. A chain letter Emporium offers the reader a beguil- travels across centuries of poetry, from Langland to Maxine Chernoff; ing and compendious range of styles deep in a snowy forest, seen only by wolves, a mysterious machine is and voices, and signals the arrival of a resonating… Pindar maps a surreal hinterland where the dark humour of fascinating and original poet. absurdity lies in wait. MARK FORD

ABOUT THE AUTHOR MAY 2011 IAN PINDAR was born in London in 1970. He is the author of Joyce (Haus, 2004), a biography of , and co-translator of The Three Ecologies (Continuum, 2000) by ISBN 978 184777 0653 the radical French theorist Félix Guattari. He was an editor at J. M. Dent, Weidenfeld & 96 pp PAPER £9.95 Nicolson and the Harvill Press, where he edited Haruki Murakami and W. G. Sebald. He is now a freelance writer and editor living in Oxfordshire. He won second prize in the World 2009 National Poetry Competition for the poem 'Mrs Beltinska in the Bath'.

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E r ic The Baboons of Hada O r m s b y The Baboons of Hada introduces thirty years of Eric Ormsby’s precise and I like the way the rooster lifts his feet, generous poetry. Opening with an exuberant bestiary of spiders and starfish, So jauntily exact, penguins, snakes and contemplative baboons, the collection moves on to Then droops one springy yellow claw aloft explore a world of intricate wonders and memories: the grandeur of noses, the mayonnaise tornado whipped up by a kitchen whisk, the gossip Just like a tailor gathering up a pleat. gravediggers whisper to the dead. An American childhood and kinships are And then there are those small surprising lilts, evoked with loving particularity, alongside a flamboyant caliph, Lazarus and Both rollicking and staid, his disenchanted wife, and the great medieval Arab poet al-Mutanabbi writing in exile lines that reverberate across ‘all the empty places’ of the That grace his bishop’s gait, world. Like a waltzer on a pair of supple stilts

His poems afford the rare pleasure of listening to a polished yet deeply humane Or a Russian on parade. sensibility respond, in language of exhilarating verve, to whatever it seizes on or from ‘Rooster’ despairs of. THE NEW CRITERION

ABOUT THE AUTHOR MAY 2011 ERIC ORMSBY was born in Atlanta in 1941. He was a longtime resident of Montreal, where he was a professor at the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University. He is now a Senior ISBN 978 184777 0660 Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London. Ormsby has written six poetry 96 pp PAPER £9.95 collections, including For a Modest God: New & Selected Poems (1997) and Time's Covenant (2006). His poems have appeared in The New Yorker and The Review and have been anthologized World in The Norton Anthology of Poetry.

POETRY 17 K e l l y The Sleepwalker at Sea OxfordPoets Grovier The poems in The Sleepwalker at Sea tread a fragile line between dream The map I’m after is scarred – creased and wakefulness, memory and loss, presence and longing. Leave a house where half the land’s been folded back, and it suddenly fills with ‘the unseen’; consult ‘The Book of Clues’ and forgotten, and half has wiped the palms, discover only ‘ghostly hints’ of a self you’ve left behind. Linked by their restless displacement, pacing haunted spaces, these are poems that question what it means to be in the world and seek answers in lost rooms, the frozen eyes of Napoleon or Petraeus. missing sketches, disappearing fragments. Why, you ask, do I seek such a thing – elbow-deep in the neighbour’s rubbish? By turns meditative and playful, romantic and philosophical, The Why else: we’re lost, of course. Sleepwalker at Sea strides an invisible path through streets of strangers, in search of ruined altars, buried candles, and ‘the whispering galleries of the from ‘Map’ dead’. Here, deer ‘dissolve / into a tapestry of mist’, a butterfly ‘measures / the universe’s weight’, and the soul ‘sculpts itself in frostlit air’.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR MAY 2011 KELLY GROVIER was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and educated at the Universities of California and Oxford. Founder of the journal European Romantic Review, he has written ISBN 978 190618 8009 widely on the Romantic poets and his biography of London's notorious Newgate prison was published by John Murray in 2008. His first book of poems was A lens in the palm (Carcanet 72 pp PAPER £9.95 / OxfordPoets, 2008). Grovier is a Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University World of Wales, Aberystwyth.

POETRY 18 A r t h u r Illuminations R i m b a u d Translated with a preface by John Ashbery A DUAL-LANGUAGE EDITION What cities they are! This is a Arthur Rimbaud’s Illuminations, first published in 1886, changed the way the people for whom these oneiric world is seen; in John Ashbery the book has a translator whose virtuosic Alleghenies and Lebanons originality brings Rimbaud’s vision to life in English. This ‘crystalline of dreams arose! Chalets of jumble’, a ‘disordered collection of magic lantern slides’, John Ashbery writes, crystal and wood that move is the very root of , ‘still emitting pulses’ of energy over a century along invisible rails and pul- after it was written. ‘If we are absolutely modern – and we are – it’s because leys. Ancient craters ringed by Rimbaud commanded us to be.’ colossi and copper palm trees Ashbery’s rendering of the forty-four poems relays the kaleidoscopic dazzle of roar melodiously amid the the original, a ‘Splendide Hotel built amid the tangled heap of ice floes and flames. Love feasts echo along the polar night’, where the Witch ‘will never tell us what she knows, and canals suspended behind the which we do not know’. chalets. The carillons’ hunting party halloos in the gorges. This major new translation presents the French text in parallel and includes a preface by John Ashbery. from ‘Cities’ (II)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND TRANSLATOR MAY 2011 ARTHUR RIMBAUD (1854–1891) was one of France’s most controversial and influential poets. He spent the first part of his life in Charleville before moving to Paris in 1871 at the invitation of Paul Verlaine, who became his lover. After ISBN 978 184777 1414 abandoning poetry at the age of twenty one Rimbaud travelled widely, eventually settling in Aden in the Yemen. Ill health forced a return to France in 1891; the same year he died in Marseilles, aged thirty seven. 302 pp PAPER £12.95 JOHN ASHBERY is America's greatest living poet and the author over twenty volumes of poetry. The French authors he World excl. US & Canada has translated include Pierre Martory and Pierre Reverdy.

POETRY IN TRANSLATION 19 T i m The Storm House Liardet Untalkative brother, a year dead, everywhere world It is rare for a book of poems to is in the ascendant. Out here the air is heavy with rain, bring an original and deeply poetic the crowded lobby like a railway station. Out here, estranged from world, I feel the urgency talent to a human story as Tim to explain exactly what it was that happened to you Liardet does in this collection. and to dig for the whole story... There is horror in the story he from ‘The Storm House’ tells, but Liardet takes the horror to its storm-lit root. The Storm In 2006 Tim Liardet’s brother died in mysterious circumstances. The Storm House House is a book of poems like is a book-length elegy that is both grief-fugue and exploration of family no other. It is true poetry, psychodrama. The two parts of the book form a powerful narrative of sorrow and sensationally assembled. anger, the events recollected in the first part extended by the virtuoso sonnet- sequence of the second. From uncertainty, trauma and silence, Liardet generates force and gravity in ‘the spring and leap / of energy’ that is the creative life owed to the dead. Tim Liardet makes the human macabre dazzle in the dark. GWYNETH LEWIS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR JUNE 2011 TIM LIARDET is the author of seven collections of poetry. His third, Competing with the ISBN 978 184777 0677 Piano Tuner (1998), was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation and longlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Prize. His fifth, The Blood Choir (2006), won an Arts Council England 72pp PAPER £9.95 Writer’s Award and was shortlisted for the 2006 T.S. Eliot Prize. Liardet is currently Professor of Poetry at Bath Spa University and reviews for and elsewhere. World

POETRY 20 Gregory An Ordinary Dog W o o d s An Ordinary Dog is a carnival of clashing forms and tones, all deployed with a cool wit and technical precision to bear sceptical witness to – what? As much to the touching ordinariness of human needs as to the vanity of human wishes. Woods writes about desire: sacred and profane, frantic and serene, refined and grubby. Light penetrates a knot-hole in a shutter; Often traduced by cussedness and always complicated by external events, desire is an apple falls. The universe’s rules here constructed less in the present than in anticipation and memory; loss is apply no less to life’s accustomed clutter resistant to the balm of forgetting. than to its galaxies and molecules...

An Ordinary Dog returns repeatedly to those times of crisis when history is lived from ‘Newton at Woolsthorpe’ and reinvented, when myth degenerates into faith, reason falters. The poems’ moods veer between cheerful equanimity and desperation; their focus between detachment and intimate involvement. In the end, as events take their course, it is always chance that prevails.

The poet with the sharpest technique for social verse in Britain . PETER PORTER

ABOUT THE AUTHOR JUNE 2011 GREGORY WOODS was born in Egypt in 1953 and grew up in Ghana. Since 1998 he has been Professor of Gay and Lesbian Studies at Nottingham Trent University (the first ISBN 978 184777 0783 such appointment in the UK). Woods has published four previous poetry collections (all with Carcanet), most recently Quidnunc (2007). He is also the author of several critical 80 pp PAPER £9.95 books, including Articulate Flesh: Male Homo-eroticism and Modern Poetry (Yale, 1987) and A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition (Yale, 1998). World

POETRY 21 John F. Eye of the Hare D e a n e I stood awhile No other contemporary Irish between land and ocean and found poet, and few Irish writers, a small stone polished sheer by sea-breaking; have mastered the art of cold-white as a winter moon eloquent, impassioned it dried quickly into dullness. I kept it, expression as artistic statement as beautifully as touching at times on a small heart of creation the way perhaps a poem John F. Deane. Deane looks can hold all of our story within its core. to Kinsella and beyond him from ‘World, Flesh and Devil’ to Yeats. Irish Times Eye of the Hare affirms a spirituality for healing a shattered world. In a richly textured collection, layered with Biblical echoes and the music of the Psalms, John F. Deane I read and re-read the explores the possibilities of poetry to redress the failures of care towards the planet music of John Deane: a fine and the needs of society. Deane revives the language of sacrament and celebration poet for our lives’ divided with raw and tender grace; in sonnets, narratives and lyrics Eye of the Hare advances seasons. towards redemption. In the book’s final section, Deane honours the places and Alison Brackenbury, landscapes of Achill, that beautiful, demanding island off the west coast of Ireland. Poetry Review

ABOUT THE AUTHOR JOHN F. DEANE was born on Achill Island on the west coast of Ireland in 1943. He is the JUNE 2011 founder of Poetry Ireland – the National Poetry Society – and of The Dedalus Press. He is ISBN 978 184777 0929 the author of many collections of poetry and some fiction. His work has been translated and published in more than ten countries. He is the recipient of the O’Shaughnessy Award for 96 pp PAPER £9.95 Irish Poetry and the Premio Internazionale di Poesia Città de Marineo. In 2007 Deane was made Chevalier en l’ordre des arts et des lettres by the French government. World

POETRY 22 F o r d Parade's End volume IV M a d o x Last Post

F o r d Edited by PAUL SKINNER LAST POST INCLUDES • the first reliable text, based on the For the first time, the four novels that make up Ford Madox Ford’s manuscript and first editions World War I masterpiece Parade’s End are published in fully annotated • a major critical introduction by editions, with authoritative corrected texts. Each novel is edited by a Paul Skinner, an expert on Ford, leading Ford expert. and Rudyard Kipling • an account of the novel’s Last Post, the fourth and concluding volume, takes place on a single composition and reception summer’s day. Ford’s characters move on into the unsettling and • a reconstruction of Ford’s original disorienting post-war world. With fluency, humour and his unmatched ending, published complete for the first time formal skill skill, Ford explores individual memory, hope and uncertainty, subtly questioning the current and future matter of • annotations explaining historical references, military terms, literary England. and topical allusions • a full textual apparatus including transcriptions of deletions and revisions • a bibliography of further reading

ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND EDITOR JULY 2011 There is no novelist of this century more likely to live than Ford Madox Ford. GRAHAM GREENE ISBN 978 184777 0158 the man who did the work for English writing. EZRA POUND 320 pp PAPER £18.95 PAUL SKINNER has published articles on Ford Madox Ford, Ezra Pound and Rudyard Kipling. He is the editor of Ford's No Enemy for Carcanet Press (2002) and of Ford Madox Ford's Literary Contacts (Rodopi, 2007). He lives in Bristol, where World he was an academic bookseller for many years and now works in publishing.

FICTION 23 P e t e r The Glacial Stairway R i l e y The Glacial Stairway collects almost a decade’s new poems and I climb the stone tower to watch spring arrive sequences by the Cambridge-based author Peter Riley. Most of the amber willow-buds, palace water-clock’s slow drip longer pieces derive from experiencing an unfamiliar place, in this book, highland and wilderness (the Pyrenees, the Apennines, , Haute mist spirals wander through the fields in cold Provence, the American west). Other pieces are set at home, or in places the green light a dark wind leans over the grass... author has never been to at all. Little time is spent in describing, beyond reassuring the reader of a firm position on the earth. The localities are from ‘First Moon’ taken as theatres for a self-questioning of place and person. The pressures of history, culture, and language reach across the world and confront the traveller. Written response is a shield and a shelter offered to, shared with, the innocent reader: extended disquisitions and monologues, collections of fragmented noticings, and sudden bursts of song.

His poetry is urgently challenging and immensely valuable. David Kennedy, PN Review

ABOUT THE AUTHOR JULY 2011 PETER RILEY was born in 1940 in Stockport, Cheshire. He studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and the universities of Keele and Sussex. He taught at the University of Odense ISBN 978 184777 0790 (Denmark) but since 1975 has lived as a freelance writer, teacher and bookseller, first in the 80 pp PAPER £9.95 Peak District and then in Cambridge. Riley is the author of over two dozen poetry books, including two previous Carcanet collections, Passing Measures (2000) and Alstonefield (2003). World

POETRY 24 C a r o l a Arguing with Malarchy L u t h e r Arguing with Malarchy is full of voices: tender, sinister or angry, they compel PRAISE FOR LUTHER'S us to attend to their realities, the glimpsed depths of their stories, the distances PREVIOUS COLLECTION they have travelled. Carola Luther’s poems are alert to the ways a life can be Walking the Animals marks the briefly snared in the turn of a phrase – or in the moment when language fails. arrival of a wonderful new poet. She explores silences, absences, the unspoken communication between ani- Carola Luther’s poems are mals and human beings, the pauses and boundaries between what is remem- startlingly original, sensual and bered, forgotten or invented, the living and the dead. true, with imagery as tangible as the world it makes new for us... In the book’s first part, a chronicle of mourning writes out of silence into ‘the Read her.

bare threads of tunes’, to begin a new story. In the second part, Luther’s char- acters live in their language; ‘Keep talking,’ the old man tells Malarchy. We Her poems rarely stay still... travel through elemental landscapes of sea and sky, shadows and wide savan- invigorating and quietly nahs that exist beyond language and sustain when words are silenced. disturbing. Stephen Knight, Times Literary Supplement

ABOUT THE AUTHOR JULY 2011 CAROLA LUTHER was born in South Africa in 1959 and moved to the UK in 1981. Her first ISBN 978 184777 0936 collection Walking the Animals (Carcanet) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2004. Her poems have appeared in various journals and anthologies and she 88 pp PAPER £9.95 collaborates with the jazz musician Jenni Molloy. She lives and works in Yorkshire. World

POETRY 25 Mervyn Complete Nonsense P e a k e Edited by R.W. Maslen and G. Peter Winnington During his lifetime, Mervyn Peake was best known for his novels about Titus Groan, the Gormenghast trilogy, and his illustrations of Treasure Island, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and other classics. After his death, his widow To celebrate the centenary published a collection of nonsense poems which became one of the best-loved of Mervyn Peake’s birth, volumes of modern nonsense, taking their place alongside that of Edward Lear Carcanet here makes and Lewis Carroll. available for the first time Published to mark the centenary of Peake's birth in 1911, Complete Nonsense his Complete Nonsense includes over ninety poems, together with The Adventures of Footfruit, a narrative in poetic prose. Twenty four poems have never been published before, some of them substantial; several that have been published have appeared only in specialist journals. This delightful book is enhanced with wild and wonderful illustrations here reproduced, in black and white and in colour, in an exhilarating display of complementary vocations. It is a book of rare surprises and hearty laughter, and a companion to his essential Collected Poems (Carcanet, 2008).

ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND EDITORS JULY 2011 MERVYN PEAKE (1911-1968) was born in China and moved to England in 1923. He attended the Royal Academy Schools in the 1930s. During World War II he served with the Royal Artillery and the Royal Engineers. During ISBN 978 184777 0875 this period he began writing Titus Groan, the first of the ‘Gormenghast’ novels. Four collections of poems were published during his lifetime. In 2008 Carcanet published a landmark edition of Peake's Collected Poems. 320 pp PAPER £12.95 G. PETER WINNINGTON has published an acclaimed Peake biography and edits the periodical Peake Studies. World R.W. MASLEN is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow. He edited Peake’s Collected Poems (Carcanet, 2008).

POETRY 26 OxfordPoets S a s h a Red House Dugdale And there on the coast like a Chinese lantern hung the sun. Praise for Sasha Dugdale’s Whatever you do, you should not let them pour off the half-island To mix with the birds and the silts, said the wise woman. previous collections For there they will become us – body of our body ...a beguiling and unusual Blood of our blood. And theirs and our flesh will hang On bushes, like the undershirt of Midas. Dead throats debut, its best poems at once Will shirk in the sedge like spiderwebs, whispering elusive, satisfying and likely to Of how the victors took pliers to teeth and chopped charms out. No one left to remember the women, but they were deer go on being read. Fleet and hunted, springing sideways, stunned by a fist. Sean O’Brien, And when the sun rises, it will seem to our ancestors, that a new race Has come up out of the sea, dripping with gold, crueller than the last. Times Literary Supplement 'Maldon' The third collection by Sasha Dugdale, the award-winning young poet and Sasha Dugdale is a poet of translator, Red House follows on from the success of her previous two great subtlety and rare formal collections, Notebook (2003) and The Estate (2007). These lyric poems are resource. infused with the atmosphere of Russia, where the poet lived for five years. Paul Batchelor, Expansive in its scope, Red House includes traditional folk songs and poems the North after the Russian greats Marina Tsvetaeva and Anna Akhmatova.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR AUGUST 2011 SASHA DUGDALE was born in Sussex. Between 1995 and 2000 she lived and worked in Russia. ISBN 978 190618 8023 In 1999 she initiated the Russian theatre New Writing project with the Royal Court theatre, London, for whom she has translated numerous Russian plays. Her translation of Plasticine by 72 pp PAPER £9.95 Vassily Sigarev won the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright in 2002, and in 2004 she won a translation prize for her versions of poems by Elena Shvarts. World

POETRY 27 Peter Borrowed Landscapes Scupham This is Peter Scupham’s first book of poems since his celebrated Whatever happened never happened next. Collected Poems (OxfordPoets / Carcanet) appeared in 2002. Borrowed Forget the rags, the riches, glittering prizes: just young men kicking up each other’s heels Landscapes is a wonderful expansion of his landscapes and histories into his college and National Service years, which stand for a whole in their masculine pastoral, where the nymphs generation’s experience and for a past which still feeds our dimming cycle to morning lectures, arrange wide skirts sense of England. The poems are presence, not elegy, the lines well- as punts from Scudamore’s idle through the Backs, made and memorable. Scupham belongs with his contemporaries go to May Balls where Tommy Kinsman playa , Charles Tomlinson and R.F. Langley. In theGuardian selections from The Boy Friend, Salad Days – George Szirtes says that he helps ‘to define what is remarkable, oddly our rifles have not yet turned into guitars, romantic, even visionary, about an apparently desolate culture that or we into our past... remains stubbornly alive.’ from 'Whatever Happened?'

ABOUT THE AUTHOR AUGUST 2011 PETER SCUPHAM was born in Liverpool in 1933 and studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He co-founded The Mandeville Press and is a fellow of the Royal Society of ISBN 978 184777 0806 Literature. Carcanet publish his Collected Poems (2002), his Selected Poems (1999) and several 88 pp PAPER £9.95 collections of his poems. He has also published previous books with and Anvil. He now lives in Norfolk where he runs a catalogue book business. World

POETRY 28 K a y Odd Blocks R y a n Selected and New Poems For the first time the American poet Kay Ryan, United States Poet Laureate 'Green Behind the Ears' 2008-2010, has made a selection of her work for European readers. Her short I was still slightly precise lines, her meticulous phrasing, the way she feels her way through ideas so that they never cease to be real and rooted in experience and language, evoke fuzzy in shady spots the pausing precisions of Marianne Moore. A wonderfully giving writer, Ryan and the tenderest lime. is always eager to find and share surprises. ‘An almost empty suitcase – that’s It was lovely, as I what I want my poems to be,’ she says. ‘A few things. The reader starts taking them out, but they keep multiplying.’ Lucid, intense and exhilarating: Kay look back, but not Ryan is a major voice in contemporary American poetry. at the time. For it is Her poems are exhilarating, strange affairs […] Her sceptical imagination is pungent, hard to be green and her control masterful. take your turn as flesh. J.D. McClatchy, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry So much freshness Kay Ryan can take any subject and make it her own... Her work has the kind of to unlearn. singularity and sustained integrity that are very, very rare. Christian Wiman, Poetry magazine

ABOUT THE AUTHOR AUGUST 2011 KAY RYAN was born in 1945 in California and since 1971 has lived in Marin County. Her previous collections include The Niagara River (2005), Say Uncle (2000), Elephant Rocks (1996) ISBN 978 184777 1308 and Flamingo Watching (1994). Ryan's awards include the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her poems and essays 160 pp PAPER £12.95 have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Yale Review and The Paris Review. In 2008 she was World excl. US & Canada appointed the sixteenth Poet Laureate of the United States of America.

POETRY 29 N ata l i a Selected Poems Gorbanevskaya Translated with an introduction by Daniel Weissbort In 1972, in the wake of the poet’s arrest for protesting against the detention What I drink is not hot, not sweet, of dissidents in Red Square, Carcanet published its first actual book, Poems, what sinks to the ground is my fate, The Trial, Prison by Natalya Gorbanevskaya. Anna Akhmatova admired her my hands do not hold the pen, work and included her with Brodsky and a very few others who she saw as and my evenings are not well lit, constituting a living generation, at a time of poetic deadwood. Her translator nor is my midnight set ablaze. then was Daniel Weissbort, now recognised as the leading advocate of No one needs my gifts in the least, Russian poetry in Britain. on the labelled keys, my listless fingers feast. Here he revisits the poet four decades later. She lives in Paris where she works as an editor and literary translator and pursues her primary vocation, that of poet, the body of work and its thematic variety much expanded. She remains politically active, mainly in essay writing, and is now free to travel to Russia. She is regarded as one of the major living poets, closely linked to the troubled history of her country.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR AUGUST 2011 NATALIA GORBANEVSKAYA was born in Moscow in 1936. Expelled from Moscow University, she graduated in Philology from Leningrad University. She was arrested in 1968 for protesting ISBN 978 184777 0851 against the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. She worked for the newspaper Russkaya Mysl until 2001. She now lives in Paris, where she publishes poetry collections. 162 pp PAPER £12.95 DANIEL WEISSBORT was co-founder with and editor (1965-2003) of Modern Poetry World in Translation. He co-edited An Anthology of Contemporary Russian Women Poets (Carcanet, 2005).

POETRY IN TRANSLATION 30 H o p e Collected Poems irRlees Edited with an introduction by Sandeep Parmar M Paris In Collected Poems Hope Mirrlees’s remarkable long poem Paris, originally published

by the Hogarth Press is 1920, is published alongside later poetry, prose essays and from

previously unpublished work. Paris is now recognised as a ‘lost modernist masterpiece’, a daylong, psycho-geographical flânerie through the streets and metro tunnels of post-World War I Paris. Virginia Woolf called Paris ‘obscure, indecent, and brilliant’, and it has been suggested that Mirrlees experimentation with language and form had an impact on T.S. Eliot’s composition of .

Half a century later she started to publish poetry once more: work strikingly different from Paris, more formal and restrained, but with a maturity of voice and mood and touching on her later themes, including Roman Catholicism. Until the mid-1990s, Mirrlees’s reputation as an early modernist poet was obscured by her cult I see the Arc de Triomphe, status as author of the fantasy novel Lud-in-the-Mist (1926). With this book she is restored to the poetic limelight, taking her place alongside her contemporaries , H.D., Djuna Barnes and Mina Loy.

Square and shadowy like Julius Cæsar’s dreams: Scorn the laws of solid geometry, Step boldly into the wall of the Salle Caillebotte And on and on . . .

ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND EDITOR SEPTEMBER 2011 HOPE MIRRLEES (1887-1978) was born in Kent and grew up in Scotland and South Africa. She studied at Newnham College, Cambridge, and in 1922 moved to Paris. Her first novel was published in 1919, followed by her long poem, Paris ISBN 978 184777 0752 (Hogarth Press, 1920). Her other two novels are The Counterplot (1924) and the fantasy novel Lud-in-the-Mist (1926). Mirrlees converted to Catholicism and in the 1940s moved to South Africa. Three slim volumes of her poetry appeared 320 pp PAPER £14.95 during these later years, including Moods and Tensions (1976). She eventually returned to England where she died aged 91. World SANDEEP PARMAR has a PhD on the modernist poet Mina Loy and is currently a Visiting Scholar at New York University.

POETRY 31 Linda Not Many Love Poems Chase At the age of fifty Linda Chase began to publish poems, to win prizes, and to develop 'not many love poems' her skills as a performer of her own work and a facilitator and impresario for others. is the kiss of death Not Many Love Poems is a sensual celebration of the varied relationships that make as I open my mouth up lives richly lived and imagined. Chase's imagination is stimulated by paintings fish-like, hook-bound, (she was artist-in-residence at Manchester City Art Gallery, and produced ekphrastic dead-pan, cock-eyed into the flat faced bubbles work), by gardening, by memory and by love. A battle with cancer resulted in some of love's last breath. of her most harrowing and healing work. Her style is insistently demotic: the poems

carry her voice: gentle, sharp, wry, loving. The reader senses a generous honesty at Just eel tongues dance work, and an insatiable curiosity. since now it's clear that this is a poem Linda Chase's wit and sharp eye for telling detail make Not Many Love Poems a about death. A resurrection collection in which the poet can express heartbreak, and the narratives of the could crank it up, big time. everyday reveal unique moments of insight. Not many love poems could do that.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR SEPTEMBER 2011 LINDA CHASE is an American poet living in Manchester. She has published two previous collections with Carcanet, The Wedding Spy (2001) and Extended Family (2006). She has taught ISBN 978 184777 0868 at the Arden School of Theatre, the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University, and for the Poetry School of which she was the original Manchester co-ordinator. She is the 96 pp PAPER £9.95 founding director of Poets and Players. In 2000 she was founding chairperson of the Tai Chi World and Chi Kung Forum for Health, which trains teachers to work in hospitals.

POETRY 32 On the Thirteenth Stroke of Midnight michel Surrealist Poetry in Britain emy Edited with an introduction by Michel Remy r WRITERS AND ARTISTS This is the first anthology of British surrealist writing in the world. Herbert Read’s words INCLUDE when he opened the ‘Surrealist Poems and Objects’ exhibition at the London Gallery at Emmy Bridgwater midnight on 24 November 1937 provide the title. The British surrealist movement was, as Jacques B. Brunius it were, ploughed under by the Second World War which, as Read spoke, was gathering Hugh Sykes Davies force. Yet Surrealist output was vibrant and – at its best – durable, and now takes its place Toni Del Renzio in the wider European context of literary Surrealism. Anthony Earnshaw David Gascoyne Remy's anthology represents one coherent and deeply committed aspect of British poetry Humphrey Jennings between 1930 and 1980. It was the only surrealist movement in Europe to be active, and Sheila Legge freely so, during World War II. Here the original texts, most of them unfindable or Conroy Maddox Reuben Mednikoff previously unpublished, emerge from what proved a temporary oblivion. The work is George Melly fascinating, stimulating and various. British surrealist writing is at last given a chance to Grace W. Pailthorpe voice its subversion. Roland Penrose This illustrated edition includes an illuminating introduction (‘The snark was a boujum, Edith Rimmington Roger Roughton you see’), Manifestoes and Declarations of Surrealism in England, a detailed chronology Simon Watson Taylor and a dictionary of Surrealism in Britain. John W. Welson

ABOUT THE EDITOR SEPTEMBER 2011

MICHEL REMY is Professor of English Literature and Art History at the University of Nice and the leading authority ISBN 978 184777 1094 on British Surrealism. He has published four books and over fifty articles on the subject. On the Thirteenth Stroke of Midnight: An Anthology of Surrealist Poetry in Britain can be considered as a companion volume to his Surrealism in 262 pp PAPER £18.95 Britain (Lund Humphries, 2001), the first comprehensive study of the movement and its achievements. World

POETRY ANTHOLOGY 33 new books october - december 2011

SUJATA BHATT MIMI KHALVATI Collected Poems New and Selected Poems A generous selection of lyrical poems by the British- A gathering of over two decades' work by one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary poetry. Iranian writer Mimi Khalvati. one of the most poignant and graceful poets writing in one of the finest poets alive. NEW STATESMAN England currently. GEORGE SZIRTES OCTOBER 2011 ISBN 978 185754 9973 NOVEMBER 2011 £18.95, 416pp ISBN 978 184777 0943 £12.95, 220pp

New Poetries V MOYA CANNON EDITED BY MICHAEL SCHMIDT Hands The latest in Carcanet's series of new writing Luminous and precise, the Irish writer Moya Cannon's anthologies celebrating the distinctiveness and poems explore what is lost to time and change, and diversity of new poetry in English. what endures and is transformed.

OCTOBER 2011 NOVEMBER 2011 ISBN 978 184777 1315 ISBN 978 184777 1421 £12.95, 176pp £9.95, 96pp

WILL EAVES OLIVIA McCANNON Sound Houses Exactly My Own Length

Will Eaves' debut marries the formal and the The latest author to join the OxfordPoets imprint, experimental, the lyrical and the violent, the natural Paris resident McCannon has produced a startling and the hallucinatory in poems of emotional intensity. first collection.

OCTOBER 2011 DECEMBER 2011 ISBN 978 184777 1124 ISBN 978 190618 8047 £9.95, 98pp £9.95, 80pp

OCTOBER - DECEMBER TITLES 34 edwin morgan celebration

Collected Poems New Selected Poems

More than the work of most poets [Morgan’s poetry] Plangent, piquant, compassionate, mordant, tender - his welcomes the twentieth century, with its gadgets, its poetic palette is prodigiously varied and vivid and this col- paradoxes, graffiti, new languages, torn advertisements, lection spans the best of an incisive and humane talent. unconscious jokes, voyages... SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY IAIN CRICHTON SMITH

ISBN 978 185754 1885 ISBN 978 185754 4596 £19.95, 608pp £12.95, 180pp

Collected Translations A Book of Lives Readers will find here Morgan’s celebrated Mayako- vsky in Scots, his Voznesensky and Pasternak. There Everything here confirms Morgan’s lifelong resourceful- are the Italians and the French – Leopardi, Montale, ness and unfailing readability. Guillevic and Michaux; and there are Heine, Lorca, Cernuda, Enzensberger, Braga... and much more. ALAN BROWNJOHN, THE SUNDAY TIMES

ISBN 978 185754 2530 ISBN 978 185754 9188 £25, 488pp £9.95, 106pp

Play of Gilgamesh Beowulf Morgan's Play of Gilgamesh is a grief-struck piece of The translation, which was begun shortly after I came out lifeforce, a roistering, lyrical take on what keeps us young of the army at the end of the Second World War, was in and what makes us mortal. a sense my unwritten war poem, and I would not want to ALI SMITH, GUARDIAN alter the expression I gave to its themes of conflict and danger, voyaging and displacement, loyalty and loss. ISBN 978 185754 8419 £9.95, 98pp EDWIN MORGAN (2001) ISBN 978 185754 5883 £8.95, 92pp

EDWIN MORGAN CELEBRATION 35 SHEEP MEADOW PRESS TITLES - NOW AVAILABLE FROM CARCANET PAUL CELAN AND NELLY SACHS ALLEN AFTERMAN Correspondence Kabbalah and Consciousness

The letters between Nelly Sachs (1891–1970), recipi- The book enables the general reader to gain insight ent of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature, and the into the inner life of the Jewish mystical tradition and great German-speaking poet Paul Celan (1920-1970). the impact of ideas and processes of Kabbalah upon modern consciousness. HB, £14.95, 114pp ISBN 978 187881 8379 PB, £9.95, 132pp ISBN 978 193135 7234

STANLEY MOSS (ed.) FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA Interviews and Encounters with Stanley Kunitz Four Puppet Plays Readers will understand why Kunitz is seen by many Including Play Without a Title, The Divan Poems and as a paradigm of the creative artist. Interviews and Other Poems, Prose Poems, and Dramatic Pieces. Encounters will be kept close at hand by young poets as a survival kit. PB, £9.95, 168pp ISBN 978 093529 6945 HB, £14.95, 246pp ISBN 978 093529 6792

ROBERTO LONGHI ROBERTO LONGHI Piero della Francesca Three Studies

An English version of the third edition (1963) of ...prose that is palpable and radiant as the Renaissance Longhi’s seminal work on the Renaissance painter paintings he describes so meticulously: an object of rare Piero della Francesca: a major study by the most beauty indeed. important Italian art historian of this century. John Ashbery HB, £14.95, 350pp HB, £14.95, 246PP ISBN 978 187881 8775 ISBN 978 187881 8515

SHEEP MEADOW PRESS 36 AHARON SHABTAI TOMAS VENCLOVA Love and Selected Poems Forms of Hope: Essays Shabtai is one of the most exciting poets writing any- where, and certainly the most audacious... A splendid ...a poignant and eloquent work, merging literary criticism book brilliantly translated by Peter Cole. with moral insight. One believes that Mandelstam and Babel might have rejoiced in it. C.K. Williams Harold Bloom HB, £14.95, 224pp HB, £14.95, 288pp ISBN 978 187881 8539 ISBN 978 187881 8706

UMBERTO SABA UMBERTO SABA History and Chronicle of the Songbook Stories and Recollections

Saba's poetry seems like the pure sound of a voice, a The short prose works of the great Italian poet Um- voice nearly freed from the bonds of words. berto Saba (1883-1957). Eugenio Montale Available in hardback and paperback PB, £9.95, 250pp PB, £9.95, 238pp ISBN 978 187881 8393 ISBN 978 187881 8638 HB, £14.95, 238pp ISBN 978 187881 8218

DAHLIA RAVIKOVITCH The Window: New and Selected Poems

The libation that Dahlia Ravikovitch pours is of a spar- kling purity and lyric freshness... No poety in recent years has moved me more. Stanley Kunitz

HB, £14.95, 120pp ISBN 978 093529 6815

SHEEP MEADOW PRESS 37 SELECTED BACKLIST CHINUA ACHEBE EAVAN BOLAND Collected Poems New Collected Poems

Chinua Achebe's Collected Poems was easily the most This New Collected Poems is an important document: it powerful book I read in 2005: his poem 'A Mother in a is the finest evidence ever assembled of the escape from Refugee Camp' had me making a fool of myself on a train the grip of a tradition. between Charing Cross and Waterloo East. THOMAS MCCARTHY, IRISH TIMES MATTHEW SWEET, INDEPENDENT ISBN 978 185754 8433 ISBN 978 185754 8587 £9.95 £14.95

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE GILLIAN CLARKE Complete Poems Collected Poems ...one is grateful when the translator turns himself loose Gillian Clarke's poems ring with lucidity and power... and the English serves as a commentary on Baudelaire's her work is both personal and archetypal, built out of modernity. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT language as concrete as it is musical...

ISBN 978 185754 9393 ISBN 978 185754 3353 £18.95 £9.95

SUJATA BHATT THE NEW YORK POETS Point No Point: Selected Poems John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara & James Schuyler

...a substantial collection of poems, one that allows us to ...a of sublime jokers who imagined a city into ex- travel, dream and learn, but one that ultimately moves us istence. Deceptively simple surfaces overlay an intellectual by the quietude of its stance and its impeccable and emotional exuberance of staggering daring. articulation. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

ISBN 978 185754 3063 ISBN 978 185754 8433 £9.95 £9.95

SELECTED BACKLIST 38 SELECTED BACKLIST SOPHIE HANNAH R.F. LANGLEY Pessimism for Beginners The Face Of It Sophie Hannah is a poet of considerable skill... A shrewd and accurate observer of the world around her, and of her one of the classics of early 21st-century English poetry own life, she is often very funny.

WENDY COPE JEREMY NOEL-TOD, DAILY TELEGRAPH

ISBN 978 185754 8785 ISBN 978 185754 9003 £9.95 £8.95

ELIZABETH JENNINGS Selected Poems Sonnets to Orpheus and Letters to a Young Poet

[Her] clear-eyed, simple tenderness...reminds me of the The author wrote of his Sonnets to Orpheus: great 17th century poet, George Herbert. They are perhaps most mysterious, even to me...the most VERNON SCANNELL, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH puzzling dictation I have ever received and taken down. ISBN 978 085635 2829 £9.95 ISBN 978 185754 4565 £9.95

HUGH MACDIARMID Selected Poems Selected Poems Riach has done Scottish literature a great service in [Rossetti's poetry is] unequalled for its objective expres- masterminding the Carcanet edition of the works of Hugh sion of happiness denied and a certain unfamiliar steely MacDiarmid... stoicism. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

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